Published February 7, 2017

Adding a homemade feel to prepared bakery items

The smell of freshly baked cookies still warm from the oven greets lunch and dinner customers at Uncle Maddios Pizza Joint restaurants. The cookies often chocolate chip or sometimes oatmeal with white chocolate chips and cranberry raisins cook up imperfectly, looking like the kind of cookies you would have baked with your grandmother as a child growing up. Firenza, a four-unit make-your-own fast-casual pizza chain based in Fairfax, Virginia, uses its own dough to bake cookies in its pizza ovens to get that homemade quality.

Adding a homemade feel to prepared bakery items